Showing posts with label Frank Sinatra. Show all posts
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Monday, December 7, 2020

From Here to Eternity -- December 7, 2020

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79 years ago a sneak attack by forces of the Japanese Empire sank much of the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in the territory of Hawaii. The Japanese Empire came to regret doing this.

From Here to Eternity was directed by Fred Zinnemann and based on the novel by James Jones. The film is set in the time leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Much of the film was shot on location in Schofield Barracks. Montgomery Clift played a Regular Army lifer. Burt Lancaster played his friend. Ernest Borgnine played a sadistic jailer. The movie climaxes with the attack on Pearl Harbor.  

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Frank Sinatra 100 -- December 12, 2015

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Francis Albert Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on 12-December-1915.  His father was Sicilian and his mother was Genovese.  An old Italian would tell you that this explains a lot.

I appreciated his movies before I appreciated his music.  MGM put him in several musicals.  My favorite is On the Town.


"The House I Live In" is a one reeler which makes a statement against prejudice in general and antisemitism in particular.   

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Sinatra did not star in 1953's From Here to Eternity, but it helped to bring him back from a low point in his career.

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In 1954, Sinatra played an assassin in Suddenly.  He was convincing.

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In 1962, Sinatra tried to stop an assassin in The Manchurian Candidate, which he also produced.  It was a wonderful movie which wasn't shown for a long time.